slazien

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by slazien 6mo ago
It is, I agree. My point is that the proportionality of consequences is not there. We seem to be good at criminalizing discrete, individual financial acts, but not systemic corporate decisions that cause diffuse harm. That's even when
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by slazien 6mo ago
Is that the only factor? Is insider trading objective? (hint: it's not, read the law). It's objective only when we can attribute a quantitative measure to it? What's the relative "value" of $1M profit from insider t
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by slazien 6mo ago
Why do we have prison sentences for insider trading, which is arguably (much) less harmful to the society, and not for this?
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by slazien 6mo ago
This feels like a pretty negative take on what seems like impactful technology that is not going away, and will (and already has had) big impacts on how people work and build. Do you completely reject the idea of using them, ever? Do they h
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by slazien 9mo ago
https://www.jmail.world/about "We compiled these Epstein estate emails from the House Oversight Committee release by converting the PDFs to structured text with an LLM" and: "Data Sources Gmail emails:
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I Wrote Task Manager – 30 Years Later, the Secrets You Never Knew [video](youtube.com)
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by slazien 2y ago
While this might be a marketing tactic in such situations, in this case it's a press release, which is a format where it's common to speak about "yourself" in 3rd person. Look at their other press releases.
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by slazien 3y ago
For anyone interested in incorporating wild plants into their cuisine (including foraging, preparation, storage, recipes, etc.), I cannot recommend Samuel Thayer's books highly enough: https://www.foragersharvest.com/sa
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by slazien 3y ago
Ah, good catch!
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by slazien 3y ago
OpenAI didn't provide the right type of evidence, so the trademark request got dismissed: https://tsdr.uspto.gov/documentviewer?caseId=sn97733259&docI... (probably until they try again). Apparently, they... didn&#
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by slazien 3y ago
Related: me and my colleagues at Georgia Tech created something similar for multiple types of Points of Interest and developed and accessibility index. Our methodology was a bit different though: https://arxiv.org/abs/2
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Amazon’s $23M book about flies (2011)(michaeleisen.org)
206 points by slazien 4y ago|51 comments
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Ask HN: How to prepare for a potential pandemic-related recession?
2 points by slazien 7y ago|1 comments
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by slazien 7y ago
I wonder how widespread this phenomenon actually is, anyone has similar stories to share?